More on action representability and normalizers

Abstract

We show that under mild assumptions a functor is a prefibration if and only if it has terminal objects in its fibers and admits precartesian liftings of monomorphisms. We use this to show that the following conditions on a pointed category $\mathbb{C}$ are equivalent: (a) The category of morphisms of $\mathbb{C}$ admits generic split extensions; (b) Each functor category of $\mathbb{C}$ with finite domain category admits generic split extensions; (c) $\mathbb{C}$ admits normalizers and generic split extensions; (d) The kernel functor from the category split extensions in $\mathbb{C}$ to $\mathbb{C}$ is a prefibration. In addition we show that the category of morphisms of a pointed protomodular $\mathbb{C}$ admits generic split extensions if and only if for each morphism $f:X\to Z$ the functor sending each object $B$ to the isomorphism class of split extensions in ${\mathbb{C}}^2$ of $(B,B,1_B)$ with kernel $(X,Z,f)$, is representable.